the 2015 SVA AAA Meeting Program here

Society for Visual Anthropology
2015 PROGRAM
American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Denver, CO.
16-22 November 2015
COLORADO convention center
About The Society For Visual Anthropology (SVA)
The Society for Visual Anthropology (SVA) is a section of the American Anthropological Association. We promote
the study of visual representation and media. Both research methods and teaching strategies fall within the
scope of the society. SVA members are involved in all aspects of production, dissemination, and analysis of visual
forms. Works in film, video, photography, and computer-based multimedia explore signification, perception, and
communication-in-context, as well as a multitude of other anthropological and ethnographic themes.
Founded in 1984, the Society for Visual Anthropology promotes the use of images for the description, analysis,
communication and interpretation of human [and sometimes nonhuman) behavior. Members have interests in
all visual aspects of culture, including art, architecture and material artifacts, as well as kinesics, proxemics and
related forms of body motion communication (e.g. gesture, emotion, dance, sign language).
The SVA encourages the use of media, including still photography, film, video and non-camera generated images,
in the recording of ethnographic, archaeological and other anthropological genres such as media festivals and
curated exhibitions. Members examine how aspects of culture can be pictorially/visually interpreted and expressed, and how images can be understood as artifacts of culture. Historical photographs, in particular, are seen
as a source of ethnographic data, expanding our horizons beyond the reach of memory culture. The society also
supports the study of indigenous media and their grounding in personal, social, cultural and ideological contexts,
and how anthropological productions can be exhibited and used more effectively in classrooms, museums and
television.
SVA acts as an advocate for visual representation. A resolution promoting the use of visual media to satisfy tenure
and promotion requirements was sponsored and written by the SVA and accepted by the AAA.
The Society for Visual Anthropology offers a core focus for all of anthropology. We welcome contributions from
linguists and archaeologists, as well as physical and cultural anthropologists. Come join us!
SVA President: Jonathan Marion
Program design: Harjant Gill & Fiona P. McDonald
SVA Programming Co-Chairs: Susan Falls & Fiona P. McDonald
Cover Image Credit:
Trudi Lynn Smith. 1:1 (25 minutes). Conversations about the large camera and the artist studio. Victoria BC.
Canada. Studio event 2015. Photo by Trudi Lynn Smith.http://trudilynnsmith.com/
www.SocietyForVisualAnthropology.org
SVA Related Programs
VISUAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE
16-18 November 2015
Monday 16 November 2015, 7:00pm: Informal no-host dinner. Presenters and Visual Research Conference participants are encouraged to attend (please meet near the hotel registration desk at 7:00pm).
Tuesday 17 November 2015, 9:00am-6:30pm (Full Program)
Wednesday 18 November, 9:00am-3:00pm (Full Program)
Location: Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, Room 107
The SVA Visual Research Conference takes place two days prior to the official start of the AAA Annual
Meetings and provides a collegial environment for the presentation of works-in-progress. This Conference especially emphasizes much interaction among the presenters and an “actively participating
audience”, and anyone interested is welcome to attend. Sessions are allotted approximately forty-five
minutes for several scheduled presentations and discussions, thus facilitating real engagement
between the audience and the researcher(s).
AAA 2015 RELATED PROGRAMING
18-22 November 2015
MAIN SVA PROGRAMS
The SVA Film Festival brings together leading short works (under 15 minutes), full-length ethnographic
films, and interactive media. Screenings are accompanied when possible by Q&A sessions with film
directors and leading scholars in the field. Awards will be given to the best works in a number of
categories, including student films and short films during the Society for Visual Anthropology Award
Ceremony & Reception on Friday November 20, 2015. The Awards and Members meeting will take
place and the convention center. The Recption will take place from 9:00-11:30p, at the Emmauel
Gallery (see details on last page of program). See the SVA website for a full schedule of SVAFF events.
- Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival (#SVAFF)
[free and open to the public, daily]
[All screenings are in Colorado Convention Center, Room 107.]
Installations are a remix and rebirth of “Inno-Vents” and “Salons” introduced to the AAA Annual Meetings program in recent years. These events are organized off-site to the AAA main meetings and invite
anthropological knowledge off the beaten path of the written conference paper. Include performances,
recitals, exhibitions, conversations, author-meets-critic roundtables, salon readings & workshops, oral
history recording sessions, and other alternative, creative forms of intellectual expression.
All installations are listed in the AAA main program.
- Ethnographic Terminalia Presents, Aeolian Politics exhibition
(#ET2015, #AAA2015, #emmanuelgallery, #aurariacampus)
(@ethnoterminalia, @emmanuelgallery)
[Emmanuel Gallery, 11205 10th Street, Denver, CO 80204]
NOTE: For room number allocations please see the official AAA program (LINK). The SVA is unable to list room
numbers in this program document as per AAA guidlines for registered attendees.
2015 SVA PROGRAM
PAGE 1
Program Overview
WEDNESDAY, 18 November 2015
2-0140 THE STRANGE FAMILIARITY OF EXIT ZERO: A CONVERSATION WITH CHRISTINE
12:00 PM-1:45 PM
Organizers: Naomi Schiller (Brooklyn College, CUNY) and Ulla Dalum Berg (Rutgers University)
Chairs: Ulla Dalum Berg (Rutgers University)
Discussants: Christine J Walley (MIT) and Alaka Wali (The Field Museum)
12:00 PM--Social Class and the Politics of Intimate Ethnography in Christine Walley’s Exit Zero Project.
Naomi Schiller (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
12:15 PM--Ethnographic Film, “Transmedia” and Public Anthropology in Christine Walley’s Exit Zero
Project. Harjant S Gill (Towson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice)
12:30 PM--NExit Zero: the Possibilities of “Transmedia” Ethnography. Ulla Dalum Berg (Rutgers Univ.)
12:45 PM--Discussant. Alaka Wali (The Field Museum)
1:00 PM--Discussant. Christine J Walley (MIT)
1:15 PM--Discussion
THURSDAY, 19 November 2015
WORKSHOP
3-0260 SVA WORKSHOP: INTEGRATING VISUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL/MEDICAL
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Organizers: Jonathan S Marion (University of Arkansas) and Robert Lemelson (UCLA, The FPR)
Presenter: Robert Lemelson (UCLA, The FPR)
This workshop will cover both theoretical and practical issues involved in doing longitudinal ethnographic filmmaking at the intersection of psychological, medical and visual anthropology. Topics will
include: narrative forms; issues raised in exploring sensitive, dangerous or stigmatized subject material; the uses of film as a tool in research, education and advocacy; person centered ethnography and
intersubjectivity in ethnographic filmmaking; and ethical issues.
PAGE 2
2015 SVA PROGRAM
Program Overview
THURSDAY, 19 November 2015
10:15 AM -12:00 PM
3-0410 VISUALITIES: INTERVENTIONS, METHODS AND ANALYSIS
Organized by the Society for Visual Anthropology
Chairs: Eryn Fe Snyder (Temple University)
10:015 AM--Rigs, Nature, Work:Oil and Gas Photographers and Energy Landscapes. Eryn Fe Snyder
(Temple University) and Nathan Jessee (Temple University)
10:30 AM--Flying Exposure: The Visualities of Drone Hobbyist Photographers. Shreya Parvathi Subramani (Princeton University, Department of Anthropology)
10:45 AM--The Color of Money Is Red: Selling Potentiality through Visual Landscapes at Mega-Casino.
Joy Marie Messerschmidt (University of Conneticut)
11:00 AM--Framing As Corporeal Negotiation: Reflections about the Ethnographic Unfolding of Video
Making Engagements. Igor Karim (Freie Universität Berlin)
11:15 AM--Recognizing Concrete Subjects: Towards a Collectively Extromissive Ontological Theory of
Vision. Greg A Thompson (Brigham Young University, Department of Anthropology)
11:30 AM-12:00pm -- Discussion
WORKSHOP
3-0760 SVA WORKSHOP: CRAFTING VISUAL ARGUMENTS
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Organizers and Presenters:
Jonathan S Marion (University of Arkansas) & Jerome W Crowder (University of Texas Medical Branch)
This interactive workshop will examine the ethical, theoretical, and methodological issues key to visual
communication and argumentation. This workshop uses a variety of examples—from published materials to conference posters—to develop participants’ visual literacy. Building on this framework, and
foregrounding the comparative strengths and weaknesses of visual versus textual media, participants
will then be given the opportunity to work on constructing their own “visual arguments.” Further
development will then be facilitated via a group debriefing, with workshop participants. Workshop
participants should come prepared with a laptop or tablet, as well as a series of 20-40 images related
to their research interests.
4:00 PM -- 5:45 PM
3-1205 SOUND, SILENCE, VISION: WAYS OF SEEING AND SHOWING
Organized by the Society for Visual Anthropology
Chair: Jackie Jia Lou (City University of Hong Kong)
4:00 PM--Imagining Sounds, Seeing a Place: Silent Signs of Resistance in Nga Tsin Wai Village, Hong
Kong. Jackie Jia Lou (City University of Hong Kong) and Chun Kwok Wong (Lingnan University)
4:15 PM--Towards a Critical Media Practice: Ethnographic Uses of Non-Verbal Audiovisual Recording.
Philip Cartelli (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales and Harvard University)
4:30 PM--Autism and the Barriers to Becoming a ‘Participant’ of ‘Culture’. Anita Carrasco (Luther
College)
4:45 PM--Photographing Those in Need: Exploitation Vs. Empowerment. Jonathan A Herrle (Syracuse
University) and Dennis Kinsey (Syracuse University)
5:00 PM--Wearing the Nation in Exile: Myanmar Women, Tradition and Modernity. Inga Gruss (Cornell
University)
5:15 PM-5:45pm--Discussion
2015 SVA PROGRAM
PAGE 3
Program Overview
Thursday 19 November 2015Continued...
5:00 PM- 8:00 PM
3-1145 SOCIETY FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY (SVA) BOARD MEETING
Meeting for all elected and ex-officio SVA Board members
Friday, 20 November 2015
8:00 AM -- 9:45 AM
4-0120 REFRAMING REPRESENTATION OF THE MEDICAL IMAGE: CRAFTING SYNERGIES BETWEEN MEDICAL AND VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGIES
Organizer: Jerome W Crowder (University of Texas Medical Branch) and Elizabeth Cartwright (Idaho
State University)
Chair: Elizabeth Cartwright (Idaho State University) and Jerome W Crowder (University of Texas Medical Branch)
Discussant: Karen Nakamura (Yale University) and Lenore H Manderson (University of the Witwatersrand)
8:00 AM--The Time before Memories: An Exploration of a Day in the Life of a Baby. Elizabeth Cartwright (Idaho State University) and Adam LaVar Clegg (Idaho State University)
8:15 AM--Sculpted Wounds, Encrypted Messages. Cristiana Bastos (University of Lisbon)
8:30 AM--”Life Is Full of Contradictions!”: Men, Masculinities and Everyday Healthcare in Denmark.
Nina Nissen (University of Southern Denmark)
8:45 AM--Embodying the “War on Drugs”: A Photo Essay from Tijuana, Mexico. Jennifer L Syvertsen
(The Ohio State University), Angela Robertson Bazzi (Boston University) and María Luisa Rolón
(University of California, San Diego and Universidad Xochicalco)
9:00 AM -- Visualizing Tensions in an Ethnographic Moment: A Systematic Analysis of Images and
Intersubjectivity. Jerome W Crowder (University of Texas Medical Branch)
9:15 AM-- Discussant: Karen Nakamura (Yale University)
9:30 AM--Discussiant: Lenore H Manderson (University of the Witwatersrand)
Friday, 20 November 2015
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
4-0360 IMAGE AS METHOD, PART II
Chair and Organizer: Brian Goldstone (Columbia University) and Robert Desjarlais (Sarah Lawrence
College)
Discussant: Stefan Helmreich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Anthropology)
10:15 AM--The Headless Body: Rendering the Limits of Power, Visibility and Understanding in Images of
Violence. Angela N Garcia (Stanford University)
10:30 AM--Blank White. Robert Desjarlais (Sarah Lawrence College)
10:45 AM--The Powers of the False Primitive. Lucas Bessire (University of Oklahoma)
11:00 AM--Exposure / Overexposure. Brian Goldstone (Columbia University)
11:15 AM-The Golden Days of Said Otruk. Diana K Allan (McGill University)
11:30 AM--Just Nearby. Hugh Raffles (The New School for Social Research)
11:45 AM--TDiscussant. Stefan Helmreich (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Anthropology)
PAGE 4
2015 SVA PROGRAM
Program Overview
Friday, 20 November 2015Continued...
10:15 AM - 12:00 PM
4-0435 ETHNOGRAPHIC EXCESS
Organizers: Julia H Yezbick (Harvard University) and Joanne R Nucho (New York University) [Chair]
Discussant: Kathryn Ramey (Emerson College)
10:15 AM--Noise, Ear Witnessing, and Urban Polyphonies: An Ethnographic Approach.
Leonardo Cardoso (Texas A&M University)
10:30 AM-Artistic Technique, the War on Drugs, and Everyday Censorship: Taking Photos of Photographers in a Brazilian Shantytown. Jason Scott (University of Colorado-Boulder)
10:45 AM--Drawing Maps, Reimagining Worlds: Reconsidering Ethnographic Practices of Video and
Vision. Joanne R Nucho (New York University)
11:00 AM--Heightened Anticipation: Sensing, Sound and Silence in the Dark.
Jared S McCormick (Harvard Univeristy)
11:15 AM--Wild(ing) Ethnography: Training with ‘the Hinterlands’ in Detroit.
Julia H Yezbick (Harvard University)
11:30 AM--Policing Sound: From Banning to Sponsoring Street Dance in Rio De Janeiro.
Alexandra S Lippman (University of California, Davis)
11:45 AM---Discussant: Kathryn Ramey (Emerson College)
Friday, 20 November 2015
1:45 PM -- 3:30 PM
4-0975 ETHNOGRAPHIC APPS/APPS AS ETHNOGRAPHY: EXPLORING POSSIBILITIES FOR MULTIMEDIA
AND COLLABORATIVE FUTURE
Organizers: Samuel G Collins (Towson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal
Justice) and Matthew S Durington (Towson University) [Chair]
Discussant: Krista Harper (University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Anthropology)
1:45 PM--Anthropology Games: Teaching Game Design to Mobile App Prototyping.
Matthew S Durington (Towson University)
2:00 PM--Informating Asthma: How Digital Health Technologies Emplace Illness and Care.
Alison Kenner (Drexel University, Center for Science, Technology, and Society)
2:15 PM--Apps, Visual Practices and the Mediated Tourist Experience.
Paolo Favero (University of Antwerp)
2:30 PM--To My Forever, Evernote. Casey K O’Donnell (Michigan State University)
2:45 PM--hoose Your Own City: Apps and Multimedia Anthropology in Seoul.
Samuel G Collins (Towson University, Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Criminal Justice)
3:00 PM--Discussant: Krista Harper (University of Massachusetts Amherst - Depart. of Anthropology)
3:15 PM--Discussion
2015 SVA PROGRAM
PAGE 5
Program Overview
Friday, 20 November 2015
4:00 PM -- 5:45 PM
4-1295 ART, ANTHROPOLOGY, ACTION
Organized by the Society for Visual Anthropology
Chair: Maya Stovall (Wayne State University)
Continued...
4:00 PM--Discussion
4:15 PM--Giving Voice to the Subaltern through Art: Visual Imagery Illustrating the Conflict Between
Uyghur Muslims and the Chinese Government.
David Makofsky (Minorities University of China Beijing, China)
4:30 PM--Private Politics When the White Cube Goes Public. Sophia Powers (UCLA Art History)
4:45 AM--Liquor Store Theater: A Visual Anthropology of Detroit Neighborhoods.
Maya Stovall (Wayne State University)
5:00 PM--Producing Local Value within the International Biennale Circuit: The Kochi Biennale.
Deborah C Matzner (Wellesley College - Department of Anthropology)
5:15 PM--Ghanaian Film Production: Familiar Practice, Familiar Concerns.
Farah Britto (University of South Florida)
5:30 PM--Discussion
FRIDAY, 20 November 2015
7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
4-1535 SOCIETY FOR VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY (SVA) MEMBERS’ MEETING & AWARDS CEREMONY
Meeting for all members of the SVA and all those interested in visual anthropology, includes the SVA’s
2015 award ceremony featuring the Collier Award, the Film and Media Festival Awards, and the SVA
Lifetime Award.
FRIDAY, 20 November 2015
9:00 PM - 11:30 PM
4-1535 SVA AWARDS RECEPTION
SVA Awards Ceremony -- open to all.
The SVA Reception will take place at the 2015 Ethnographic Terminialia exhibition, Aeolian Politics, at
the Emmanuel Gallery. A short 10min walk from the convention center. Light snacks and beverages
served.
Emmanuel Gallery Address: 1205 10th Street, Denver, CO 80204 (on the Auraria Campus).
For more details of this event please see the last page of this program.
PAGE 6
2015 SVA PROGRAM
Program Overview
Saturday, 21 November 2015
8:00 AM -- 9:45 AM
5-0070 EXHIBIT DESIGNS (AS IF) NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUMS REPRESENTED CONTEMPORARY
ANTHROPOLOGY
Organizers: Christine M Hegel-Cantarella (Western Connecticut State University)
Chair: Christine M Hegel-Cantarella (Western Connecticut State University) and Luke Cantarella (Pace
University)
Discussant: George E Marcus (University of California, Irvine - Department of Anthropology) and
Douglas R Holmes (Binghamton University, SUNY - Department of Anthropology)
8:00 AM--TUnnatural Histories of the Jefferson-Hemings Kinship System.
Elizabeth J Chin (Art Center College of Design)
8:15 AM--Fieldwork: A Collaborative Game of Creation, Chance, and Risk.
Colin Ford (University of California, Irvine) and Allison Clark (University of Texas at Austin)
8:30 AM--In and out of Debt: New Imaginings of Ethnographic Encounter, Part I.
Luke Cantarella (Pace University)
8:45 AM--In and out of Debt: New Imaginings of Ethnographic Encounter, Part II.
Christine M Hegel-Cantarella (Western Connecticut State University)
9:00 AM--Discussant: Douglas R Holmes (Binghamton University, SUNY - Department of Anthropology)
9:15 AM--Discussant: George E Marcus (University of California, Irvine - Department of Anthropology)
9:30 AM--Discussion
Saturday, 21 November 2015
8:00 AM -- 9:45 AM
POSTER SESSION
5-0070 FIRST RITES: INNOVATIVE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH IN ANTHROPOLOGY
Organizers: Deb Rotman and Jonathan S Marion
Undergraduate students are an increasingly important element in the production of anthropological
knowledge. In its best form, undergraduate research can be seen as an apprenticeship, wherein the
novitiate is granted a partnership and some degree of agency in pushing the boundaries of and crossing into new frontiers of shared knowledge. Collaboration with undergraduate students in research
is one of the important ways we can facilitate innovation within our discipline. Their research breaks
down classroom/research boundaries, focuses on the importance of experiential learning, and exploits
the naiveté and vigor of students not yet indoctrinated into paradigmatic complacency.
2015 SVA PROGRAM
PAGE 7
Program Overview
Saturday, 21 November 2015
1:45 PM -- 3:30 AM
5-0850 NOT TRUE, TRUE, MORE TRUE, VERY TRUE: RE-PRESENTATIONAL PRACTICES, MEDIAS IDENTITY
MAKING
Organized by the Society for Visual Anthropology
Chair: Eugenia C Kisin (Jackman Humanities Institute)
1:45 PM-Archival Projections: Documenting Indigenous Modernisms on the Northwest Coast.
Eugenia C Kisin (Jackman Humanities Institute)
2:00 PM--Can She Represent Muslims? Examining Visual Media Discourse on Malala Yousafzai.
Wajeeha Ameen Choudhary (Drexel University)
2:15 PM--Digital Oral Tradition: Learning Appalachian Old-Time Music Via Youtube and Skype.
Rachel M Ward (Simon Fraser University)
2:30 PM--Familiar Images: The Plains Apache and the Photographs of J. Gilbert Mcallister.
Abby Wightman (Mary Baldwin College)
2:45 PM--Waasikibiizoo: Anishinabeg Photography As Decolonial Praxis.
Celeste Pedri (Laurentian University)
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Discussion
Saturday, 21 November 2015
1:45 PM -- 3:30 AM
5-1275 THE PAST AS PROLOGUE: THE LEGACY OF THE SMITHSONIAN’S HUMAN STUDIES FILM ARCHIVE
Organizer: Joshua A Bell (National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian)
Chair: John Homiak (Smithsonian Institution)
Roundtable Participants:
John Bishop (Media-Generation),
Alice Apley (Documentary Educational Resources, Inc.),
Jennifer Cool (University of Southern California, Department of Anthropology),
Amy J Staples (Smithsonian Insitution),
William E Mitchell (University of Vermont)
Nancy C Lutkehaus (University of Southern California)
Participants in this roundtable will reflect on what the legacy of the Human Studies Film Archives, a part of
the National Anthropological Archives (HSFA), and what it means for anthropology, as well as the role that
film and video have played (and continues to play) in make anthropology more accessible to the public,
pushing the boundaries of anthropological ways of knowing and making ‘the strange’ familiar and ‘the
familiar’ strange.
PAGE 8
2015 SVA PROGRAM
Program Overview
SUNDAY, 22 November 2015
8:00 AM-9:45 AM
Continued...
6-0160 TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF HORIZONS
Organizer: Atreyee Majumder (Azim Premji University)
Chair: SSarover Zaidi (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
Discussants: Maya Ratnam (Johns Hopkins University) and Daniel Joseph Schultz (University of
Chicago)
8:00 AM--Being in the Crossing of a River. Atreyee Majumder (Azim Premji University)
8:15 AM--Viewing, Working, Thinking: Inhabiting and Imagining Space in the Central Indian Forests.
Maya Ratnam (Johns Hopkins University)
8:30 AM-Religious Subjects (and Objects) at the Horizon of Critique.
Daniel Joseph Schultz
8:45 AM--Making Mosques, Making Horizons.
Sarover Zaidi (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity)
9:00 AM--Discussant: Maya Ratnam (Johns Hopkins University)
9:15 AM--Discussant: Daniel Joseph Schultz (University of Chicago)
9:30 AM--Discussion
REMINDER
2015 SVA Awards
SVA AwardS Ceremony
Friday 20 November 2015, 7:45 PM - 9:00 PM
See the Online or Print AAA Program for Room Allication
SVA LIFE TIME ACHIVEMENT AWARD
SVA FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
Reception 9:00 PM-11:30pm
Please make your way over to the Emmanuel Gallery (1205 10th Street, Denver, CO
80204), a short 10 min walk. Light snacks and beverages served.
Details on last page of progran
2015 SVA PROGRAM
PAGE 9
2015 SVA Awards
Tom Blakely and anthropologist Zoe Bray, with the portrait she painted at the Chicago AAA meetings in November
2013 during a several-day Ethnographic Terminalia gallery encounter entitled: “The Ethnographic Process of
Portrait Painting”. Photograph by Rachel Topham.
The Society for Visual Anthropology’s Lifetime Achievement Award for 2015 has been awarded
to Thomas Dustin Blakely. He received his Ph.D. from Northwestern University in 1981 and was
a founding member of the SVA, serving as its President and its representative on the American
Anthropological Association Executive Board in 1986 and 1987. He has done six years of ethnographic fieldwork (including 60,000 photographs, hundreds of research films and audio recordings)
in Central Africa among Báhêmbá in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. He is the organizer
and master of ceremony of the Visual Research Conference from its inception in 1985 through the
present time. Professor Blakely provides a collegial setting for these Conferences that has inspired
and assisted students and professionals for the last 30 years. The presentations are works-in-progress, and many of them have subsequently been published (Scherer 2012). No one has been more
dedicated to the teaching of visual anthropology than Professor Blakely. His nurturing of students
where he is currently teaching at Albright College and the Berks Campus of Penn State University
(where he won the Outstanding Teacher Award in 2006), and previously at Brigham Young University and Temple University, is evidence of this dedication. He has published works in visual semiotics, proxemics, and gesture; ethnographic photography and film; religion in Africa; and African arts
and performance. His contributions to SVA have also included serving several times each as AAA
Program Chair for SVA, as juror for the SVA Film Festival, and SVA Anthropology Newsletter editor,
as well as publishing a directory of visual anthropologists’ research and filmmaking, which includes
a valuable history of the predecessors of the society.
This award was selected by votes cast by the SVA Board. The award will be presented at the SVA
Award Ceremony on Friday evening, 20 November 2015.
PAGE 10
2015 SVA PROGRAM
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Full program available at:
http://societyforvisualanthropology.org/wordpress/wp-content/
uploads/2008/08/2015-SVAFMF-Prog_WEB-Final.pdf
2015 SVA PROGRAM
PAGE 11
ANNOUNCEMENTS
PAGE 12
2015 SVA PROGRAM